AlessioG

Dear All, I've a little bastard question about arduino. On http://arduino.cc/en/Main/FAQ there is this Q&A:"What do you mean by open-source hardware?Open-source hardware shares much of the principles and approach of free and open-source software. In particular, we believe that people should be able to study our hardware to understand how it works, make changes to it, and share those changes. To facilitate this, we release all of the original design files (Eagle CAD) for the Arduino hardware. These files are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, which allows for both personal and commercial derivative works, as long as they credit Arduino and release their designs under the same license.

The Arduino software is also open-source. The source code for the Java environment is released under the GPL and the C/C++ microcontroller libraries are under the LGPL. "The question is: On the Arduino site I didn't find pages of microcontroller schematics , this is in conflict with the official open source definition above mentioned. Maybe it exists and I didn't find =( ? Kind Regards, Alessio.

The design I$ open source and calls for a "specific" controller because That part meets the design specification If this is an issue for your design purposes... Pick one that does... It would also be good to verify that the control software is compatible with your choice of hardware and controller.Much as the 'original' designer did..'

Doc

--> WA7EMS "The solution of every problem is another problem." -Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI do answer technical questions PM'd to me with whatever is in my clipboard

When you have designed one and have it in production at £2 per piece let us know.

...R

+1

Then there's the question of cleaving your own crystal

"Pete, it's a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." Ulysses Everett McGill.Do not send technical questions via personal messaging - they will be ignored.I speak for myself, not Arduino.

AlessioG

The design I$ open source and calls for a "specific" controller because That part meets the design specification If this is an issue for your design purposes... Pick one that does... It would also be good to verify that the control software is compatible with your choice of hardware and controller.Much as the 'original' designer did..'

Doc

Arduino IS NOT Open Source because its behaviour depends on a commercial product ]. It look a trojan h. for selling a particular techonolgy. HA!.

P.s.When you was babies I was building analogic neural networks ... ]Bye Bye.

Back then did you grow your own germanium crystals, or blow your own vacuum valves (tubes)?

"Pete, it's a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." Ulysses Everett McGill.Do not send technical questions via personal messaging - they will be ignored.I speak for myself, not Arduino.

"Pete, it's a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." Ulysses Everett McGill.Do not send technical questions via personal messaging - they will be ignored.I speak for myself, not Arduino.

I forgot to ask - was the analogue neural net pneumatic, hydraulic or string and pulleys?Bye bye.

"Pete, it's a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." Ulysses Everett McGill.Do not send technical questions via personal messaging - they will be ignored.I speak for myself, not Arduino.